Bono owns 2.3% of Facebook’s shares (because of course he does) through a $90 million dollar purchase made by his investment group, Elevation Partners, in 2009. Now, with Facebook going public and all — it’s currently valued at about $100 billion — NME reports that Bono stands to make a killing off of his position, in the neighborhood of $1.5 billion. That makes him the world’s richest musician pretty much going away; Paul McCartney is a mere billionaire and is basically poor compared to Bono. “Where The Streets Have No Name (Because I Own The World)” (2012 Remix). Commenters, what you got?

The better Bono joke is that after Kurt Cobain dies and goes to heaven, St. Peter is walking him around showing him all of his dead rock star buddies, “Hey here’s Jimi Hendrix, here’s Janis Joplin.” All the sudden this short Irish guy with dyed black hair in a patent leather suit and wrap around fly shades struts through the clouds like he owns the place. Kurt says, “Bono’s not dead, what’s he doing here?” St. Peter says, “oh no, that’s God he just likes to pretend he’s Bono.”

It’s an investment GROUP. “Bono” doesn’t own 2.3% of anything, only a fraction of that. The investment GROUP that he is a part of owns 2.3%. Also, dude has already said most of the profits from this investment will go to Africa.

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